Here is my simple and healthy (since it’s loaded with garlic!) shrimp dish that is extremely simple to make. Just chop off the eyes part of the shrimp head, make a slit down the back, remove the vein, steam and then top them off with heaps of garlic oil.

Ooh La La.

With such versatility and wide range of flavors, now how can I not love shrimp?!

You see…masterpiece again ;p I’ve eaten similar dish in restaurant before…yes…very garlicky but it’s good! I think I want to try this too!The prawns like “procreation” mode…buahahah!LOL! More prawns for you!

bee, those shrimp are stunning! Is it difficult to split them down the back and prepare them like that? In Korea there is a similar shrimp preparation, but the shrimp is steamed, then covered with minced hardboiled egg yolk and egg white. It is pretty, but looks time consuming.

Ming – aiya, of course more than 3 lah, but for food photography purposes I show only 3. Show all not nice one.

BuddingCook – I think they are frolicking. :P

FBB – ooooh, I love delumptious…will have to use it sometimes. :)

Maryeats – yes, it’s kinda hard to have them “presented” this way as once they are cooked, they tend to curl…wow, steamed shrimp with egg yolk and egg white, sounds fantastic! Take a picture for me. :)

Sam – there is only one thing that is constant in my fridge, shrimp. I never run out of it…if I ever do, I would declare it an emergency! LOL!

Kok – shrimp is extremely cheap in the US. Usually average at $4.99/pound, and sometimes when it’s sale, it’s only $3.99/pound and I am talking about big ones not the tiny ones in Malaysia!

Suanne – yes, they curl up…so what I did is I slit it from the head towards the end of the tail.

I’m going to make these next week! The presentation is so artful. Its hard to find shrimp with head on here where I live though. I used to make a mason jar full of the garlic oil and use that to top steamed vegetables, but recently read that home made garlic oil contains toxins if you do not refrigerate it and leave it out.

Shrimps are not high in cholesterol. Actually shrimps are good for lowering cholesterols. We Asians, have been eaten Masak Lemak Daging Salai, Gulai Udang, Pucuk Paku Rebus n Sambal Belacan for many generations.. had no prob with health until……. the low fat stuff came. We all get sick..